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     The Government Property Agency is inviting tenders for a three-year licence of the car park on a portion of the first floor of Sai Kung Government Offices, No. 34 Chan Man Street, Sai Kung, New Territories.

     The premises should be used for the purpose of a fee-paying public car park for the parking of private cars only.

     The tender notice was uploaded today (August 3) to the Agency’s website: www.gpa.gov.hk. Tender documents are available for collection at the Government Property Agency, 31/F, Revenue Tower, 5 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, during office hours (8.30am to 5.45pm from Mondays to Fridays). The documents can also be downloaded from the Agency’s website.
      
     Interested tenderers who wish to inspect the site should make prior appointment with the Government Property Agency by calling 2594 7654 on or before August 15.

     Tenderers must submit their tenders by placing them in the Government Logistics Department Tender Box at the Ground Floor, North Point Government Offices, 333 Java Road, North Point, before noon on August 29 this year. Late tenders will not be accepted. read more

     Tsang Man-tung and five speakers will give lectures in the Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s “On Sounds, Colours, Images and Forms – Multimedia Lecture Series” in September and October. Details are as follows:
 
September 21 (Friday)
Topic: “The Theatre as a Black Mirror”
Speaker: Adrian Yeung
Venue: Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

     Adrian Yeung is a multimedia designer and theatre director, and is currently a senior lecturer in Media Design and Technology Department of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His directorial efforts are mainly applied to creating theatre works that explore the topical issues of new technologies, and their application within the context of theatre production.
 
September 28 (Friday)
Topic: “Visible Sounds: Sound and Image”
Speaker: Dan Fong
Venue: Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
 
     Dan Fong graduated from the City University of Hong Kong, where he trained at the School of Creative Media, and is currently a digital visual artist and visual designer. His work has been shown in the productions of Zuni Icosahedron, W Theatre, Hong Kong Dance Company and others. He has designed the video and visual effects for numerous pop concerts, having collaborated with pop singers including Paula Tsui, George Lam and Miriam Yeung.
 
October 5 (Friday)
Topic: “Finding Warmth in a Digital Age”
Speaker: Alex Cheung
Venue: AC 2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
 
     Alex Cheung graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majoring in directing, and holds a master’s degree from the Fo Guang University Graduate Institute of Art Studies. He was a core member of Ring Creative, working mainly in drumming performances, theatre, physical movements, and design and teaching of courses on Eastern art. He founded Möbius Strip Theatre, of which he is also Co-Artistic Director.
 
October 12 (Friday)
Topic: “The Greatest Form Has No Shape”
Speaker: Oliver Shing
Venue: AC 2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
 
     Oliver Shing graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he trained at the School of Journalism and Communication. He is currently a multimedia artist and a video director. He has established connections with creative people in various sectors, explored perspective projection and interactive media technology, and collaborated in video designs for theme parks, concerts and more.
 
October 19 (Friday)
Topic: “The Invisible Movements”
Speaker: Koala Yip
Venue: AC 2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
 
     Koala Yip holds a bachelor degree from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and a master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts in the United States. She is currently a practising educator in multimedia performance and a visiting lecturer at the Beijing Dance Academy, the University of Hong Kong and the Maryland Institute College of Art in the United States.
 
     With 20 years of experience as a scenographer and over 200 design projects for the stage, Tsang Man-tung has a brilliant track record of awards. The notable ones include Best Set Design, Best Costume Design and Best Make-up and Image Design at the Hong Kong Drama Awards; the Award for Best Artist (Theatre) in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2007-08; and winning Outstanding Set Design for Dance three times at the Hong Kong Dance Awards. In 2010, he visited Yale School of Drama as a special research fellow on an Asian Cultural Council fellowship in 2009. He was awarded under the Secretary for Home Affairs’ Commendation Scheme in 2015 for his contribution to the development of arts and culture. In 2017, he won the Silver Prize and an Honorable Mention for Set Design at World Stage Design 2017 with the martial arts dance drama “Storm Clouds”. 

     All lectures (to be conducted in Cantonese) will be held at 7.30pm. Tickets priced at $50 (for each lecture) are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/multi_arts/programs_605.html. read more

The following is issued on behalf of the Independent Review Committee on Hong Kong’s Franchised Bus Service:

     The Independent Review Committee on Hong Kong’s Franchised Bus Service will hold a hearing to receive oral evidence from the nominated representatives of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) and Long Win Bus Company Limited, next Tuesday (August 7) (to be continued on August 10 and 11, if necessary) from 10am to 5.30pm (with a break between 1pm and 2.30pm) at the Auditorium of the Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar. The Committee’s rules of procedure for the receipt of oral evidence and notice to the public attending the hearing to receive oral evidence are available on the Committee’s website (www.irc-bus.gov.hk/eng/press.html).

     Having received and considered written submissions from various interested parties, and in order to obtain further information, the Committee is in the process of inviting specific interested parties to give oral evidence to the Committee through nominated representatives. Eleven hearings have been held so far to receive oral evidence from:

(A)    Representatives of –
•    the Transport and Housing Bureau;
•    the Transport Department;
•    the New World First Bus Services Limited and Citybus Limited;
•    the New Lantao Bus Company (1973) Limited;
•    Tai Po, Sha Tin and Sham Shui Po District Councils;
•    ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Openmatics s.r.o.;
•    the Community for Road Safety;
•    the Motor Transport Workers General Union, including its sub-unions of Citybus Branch, KMB Branch, Long Win Bus Branch, New Lantao Bus Branch and New World Bus Branch;
•    The Federation of Bus Industry Trade Unions, including its members of KMB Staff Union, New World First Bus Company Staff Union and Citybus Limited Employees Union;
•    the KMB Employees Union;
•    the Staff Rights Association of KMB;
•    the Monthly-Rated Drivers Union; and
•    the Part-time Drivers Union

(B)    Former employees of the KMB –
•    Mr Alok Jain; and
•    Mr Raymond Cheng

(C)      Employees of the KMB –
•    Ms Debby Wong; and
•    Mr Kelvin Yeung

     A transcript of that evidence (and a translation in Chinese) is available on the Committee’s website (www.irc-bus.gov.hk/eng/transcripts.html).

     The Committee wishes to invite family members of the victims and passengers on board the bus involved in the fatal incident on Tai Po Road, and other recent serious incidents involving franchised bus services, to attend the hearings, and invites them to contact the Secretariat in advance of the hearings if they wish to attend. Except for seats reserved for such persons as well as the media and specifically identified interested parties, all available seats in the hearing venues will be open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. A registration counter will open at 9.30am on August 7, 10 and 11.

    Enquiries regarding the hearings may be directed to the Secretariat of the Committee at 2867 5324. read more

Attention TV/radio announcers: Please broadcast the following as soon as possible: Here is an item of interest to swimmers.      The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced today (August 3) that due to big w… read more

     The Government announced today (August 3) that the Chief Executive, on the recommendation of the Chief Justice, has re-appointed the Commissioner on Interception of Communications and Surveillance and a Panel Judge under the Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance (Chapter 589).

     The Chief Executive has re-appointed Mr Azizul Rahman Suffiad, a former Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, as the Commissioner for a term of three years with effect from August 17, 2018, to August 16, 2021. Under the Ordinance, the Commissioner performs the role of an independent oversight authority to ensure the law enforcement agencies’ compliance with the requirements of the Ordinance.

     Commenting on the Commissioner’s appointment, the Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, said, “Mr Suffiad is a retired judge with a wealth of experience and very conversant with the operation of the regime under the Ordinance. He served as a Panel Judge under the Ordinance from the enactment of the Ordinance in 2006 until his retirement from the post in 2014. Mr Suffiad became the Commissioner in August 2015, and has been devoted to performing his function as an independent oversight authority under the Ordinance to ensure the law enforcement agencies’ compliance and the effective operation of the regulatory regime. I am confident that he will remain capable of taking up the important position as the Commissioner.”

     Furthermore, under the Ordinance, there should be three to six Panel Judges to consider applications for authorisations of interception and Type 1 surveillance and for device retrieval warrants.

     The Chief Executive has re-appointed Mr Justice Andrew Chung On-tak, a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, as a Panel Judge under the Ordinance for another term of three years from August 9, 2018, to August 8, 2021.

     The Chief Executive said, “Mr Justice Chung has been serving as a Panel Judge under the Ordinance since 2006. I am grateful for his ongoing dedicated service and am confident that he, together with two other Panel Judges, will continue to make use of their expertise and experience to ensure the effective operation of the regulatory regime under the Ordinance.”

     The Ordinance provides a comprehensive statutory framework for regulating the carrying out of interception and covert surveillance by designated law enforcement agencies and aims to strike a balance between protecting the rights of the community to law and order and the privacy rights of the individual. read more